Alleged rape victim faces trial over revenge killing

The Observer, LOS ANGELES

On April 15, she identified Ramirez in a bar. Leaving Esparza behind, Van and three friends, Shannon Gries, Kody Tran and Diane Tran, allegedly tailed their quarry, crashed his truck and abducted him when he got out.

He was beaten, hacked with a meat cleaver and hung from the ceiling of a transmission shop owned by Kody Tran.